Ah, civilization. That wondrous period when humans figured out two things: (1) fire is amazing and (2) neighbors are terrible.
Our story begins roughly 10,000 years ago or as modern humans might say, “before Wi-Fi.” The earliest civilizations popped up like mushrooms after a cosmic rainstorm: Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, and a few others that mostly argued about who had better pottery.
